The Luftwaffe : a history
John Killen (Author)
John Killen's exhaustive work is a study of German air power between 1915 and 1945, from the early days of flying when Immelmann, Boelke, Richtofen and other First World War aces fought and died to give Germany air supremacy, to the nightmare existence of the Luftwaffe as the Third Reich plunged headlong to destruction. Here are the aircraft: the frail biplanes and triplanes of the Kaiser's war; the great Lufthansa aircraft and airships of the turbulent Thirties; the monoplanes designed to help Hitler in his conquest of Europe. Here are the generals who forged the air weapon of the Luftwaffe
eBook, English, 2003
Pen & Sword Military Classics, South Yorkshire, England, 2003
Pen & Sword military classics (Series), ser. no. 6, Series Number 6
History
1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations
9781473800168, 9781781591109, 9781473819481, 1473800161, 1781591105, 1473819482
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""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""I Aircraft and Aces: 1914�1916""; ""II Year of Attrition: 1917""; ""III The Broken Wings: 1918""; ""IV Phoenix Rising: 1918�1926""; ""V Awaiting Events: 1926�1933""; ""VI Air Force in Embryo: 1933�1935""; ""VII Into the Arena: Spain, 1936""; ""VIII The End of the Airships: 1936""; ""IX Austria to Poland: 1938�1939""; ""X Blitzkrieg! Poland, 1939""; ""XI The Battering Ram: France, 1940""; ""XII A Fortress Besieged: The Battle of Britain"" XIII Heinkels Over London: September, 1940XIV Sunshine and Slaughter: Crete, 1941
XV Red Star Burning: Russia, 1941
XVI The Unconquerable Island: Malta, 1942
XVII Airlift to Disaster: Stalingrad, 1943
XVIII You can call me Meier! Cologne, 1943
XIX Bombing Round the Clock: 1943
XX Disintegration: 1944
XXI Fighters, Bombers or Fighter-Bombers? 1944
XXII Dresden and Berlin: 1945
XXIII Cry Havoc to the End: May, 1945
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